This is a species of Bright-eyed Frog that goes by the scientific name of Boophis ulftunni. It’s one of 200 new amphibian species that were discovered in Madagascar in 2009.

Dr Frank Glaw, curator of herpetology at the Zoologische Staatssammlung from Munich explains: ‘During the past 15 years, we discovered and described over 100 new frog species from Madagascar, which led us to believe that our species inventory is almost complete. But as our new surveys show, there are many more species than we suspected.’

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